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' No. 315,508. Patent ed Apr. 14, 1885.

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U ITED. STATES PATENT QFFICEO.

WILLIS H. HOVVES AND JOHN JACK, OF LOCKPORT, NEW YORK,

CARPET-LINING'.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,503, dated April14-, 1885.

Applicaiion filed February 2, 1885. (No model.) i

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known-that we, WILLIS H. HOWES and JOHN J AOK, both of Lockport,New York,

have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements onCarpet-Linings; and we do hereby declare that the following descriptionof our said invention, taken in connection with the accompanying sheetof drawings, forms a full, clear, and exact specification, which willenable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and usethe same.

Our' present invention has general reference to an improved article ofmanufacturepaper for packing, lining, and other analogous purposes; andit consists, essentially, in the novel and peculiar combination of partsand details of construction, as hereinafter first fully set forth anddescribed, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings already mentioned, which serve to illustrate our saidinvent-ion more fully, Figuresl and 2 are planviews of our improvedpaper. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the same. i

Like parts are designated by corresponding letters of reference in allthe figures.

The object of our present invention is the. production of packing andlining paper that shall be more elastic and better adapted forcarpet-lining than any similar article heretofore produced.

Carpet-lining, as heretofore made, consists, principally, of the usualunsized or but slightly-sized paper, formed into corrugated sheets, saidcorrugations consisting either of straight undulatory lines or ofzigzags, or else the paper is embossed with aseries of alternate hollowbosses or elevations and depressions arranged in oblique lines on bothsurfaces of the fabric. In either case, however, except where thecorrugations consist of parallel undulations or raised and depressedportions, these projections, bosses, or angularly-arrangedcorrugationsare so slight as to render the paper or fabric nearly flat and unfit forits designated purpose, the non-adhesive nature of the unsized fabricpreventing the production of socalled embossed paper otherwise than to avery limited extent only. In paper having alternate bosses these bosses,if of a sufficient depth to produce the desired elasticity of the theorybeing that upon a comparatively small surface the fabric will not yieldsufficiently to allow the production of such bosses. To avoid theseobjections and drawbacks, which is the object of our presentinventi0n,we produce in y the paper a continuous seriesof concentricrings or alternate concentric undulations, as

shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the groups of annulus being either arranged asshown in Fig. 1that is to, say, in line both vertically andhorizontally, 0r staggering, as illustratedin Fig. 24 the individualgroup of circles being separate and distinct from its adjacent groups,and the space produced at or near the intersections of the circlesfilled with either rectangular or triangular bosses or projections, asshown in Figs. 1 and 2, the transversesection of the paper, as shown inFig. 3, being a series of undulations or waves having their apex atregular intervals,the whole being of rather pleasing design, and, owingto the peculiar configuration, more elastic than any other similarfabric, and yet not more if as difficult to producethan any otherlining-paper with.

which we are acquainted.

In producing this paper,we arrange a series of embossing-rolls at adesirable station in the series of drying-cylinders, preferring,however, to placethem immediately next to and succeeding the thirteenthcylinder, when the paper is in such a moist state; as to readily conformto the embossing-rolls, and yet already sufficiently coherent to allowits passage through said rolls and then over the dryingcylinders in theusual manner. that this paper may be produced in either plain sheets orlined, at the option of the manufacturer, the configurationof theundulations being such as not in anyway to interfere with the lining, ifthoughtdesirable.

It will be readily observed thatin place of concentric rings alternatingas described helical, elliptical, oval, or otheranalogous scrolllikegroups of undulations maybe substituted for the concentric annularalternating projec tions and depressions without changing the nature ofor departing from our invention. It willbe further observed that, owingto the It is evident carpet-lining and analogous paper or fabric havinga series of groups of annular concentrio undulations arranged inrelation to each other, as described, and for the object specified. Intestimony that we claim the foregoing as our invention we have heretoset our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

"WILLIS H. HOVVES. JOHN JACK. .Attest:

Ones. G. Romans, .T. J. ARNOLD.

